Monthly Archives: June 2015

Winchester could join Southampton and Portsmouth  in a new Solent City authority Hampshire Chronicle Duncan Geddes, Reporter  ( Nov. 2014) WINCHESTER district could be cut in half under plans to form a giant council across south Hampshire, a civic chief … Continue reading →

RMT members at CalMac walk out over prospect of Serco winning contract to operate services across Clyde, inner Hebrides and Western Isles. Severin Carrell Scotland correspondent Islanders and visitors across the Hebridean islands and west of Scotland face widespread disruption … Continue reading →

England’s 9,000 parish councils are marching on the Houses of Parliament on 30 June 2015 in a ‘lobby day’ to meet with Members of Parliament. Scores of local (parish and town) council representatives from across the country will be descending … Continue reading →

It has long been known that the Isle of Wight Council would eventually be dismantled by the Government. A recent letter to Government by Isle of Wight council is open to the idea of being brought into a Hampshire-wide Combined … Continue reading →

The TUC will organise a national demonstration in Manchester this autumn against the government’s austerity agenda and attacks on trade unions. It will take place on Sunday 4 October and will begin with a march through central Manchester, culminating in … Continue reading →

From the article by Pauline Easton, “Hullabaloo About Magna Carta and Denial of Modern Definitions of Equality and Rights”. http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2015/W45026.HTM#2 …According to the pundits, three of the four key principles of Magna Carta are: “that no one is above the … Continue reading →

– Hardial Bains – Excerpt from A Future to Face written during the Referendum on the Charlottetown Accord in 1992. *** The demand for a right is the expression of the extent to which the human personality has developed in … Continue reading →

Background to Magna Carta The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, meaning “Great Charter,” is being marked this year. In the Anglo-American world, Magna Carta is considered one of the seminal legal documents. It was signed in Runnymede near Windsor Castle … Continue reading →

June 26th, 2015. A pay dispute has caused unrest at Docasters Trucast in Ryde. Workers might have to take strike action if a resolution is not found. According to Unite union rep, Gerry Rawlinson, the company offered only a 1.5% … Continue reading →

The neo-liberal offensive includes Austerity but it is part of a capitalist offensive, anti-austerity is one means to block the offensive and turn things around to develop the counter-offensive, but it should not be looked at on its own. What … Continue reading →